MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 5.00-6.30 PM
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory
Robert Leonard (Université du Québec à Montréal)
VENUE
Bocconi, Via Röntgen 1, 5th floor, room 5-E4-SR04
ABSTRACT
The speaker presents chapter 9 of his book “Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory” (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
SPEAKER
Robert Leonard writes about the history of twentieth-century economics and the social sciences in scientific and cultural contexts. His work has appeared in a range of journals that address economics and the history of science, including the Economic Journal, History of Political Economy, and Isis. His 1995 article in the Journal of Economic Literature, from which his book on game theory grew, won the Best Article Award of the History of Economics Society. Leonard is Professor of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
OTHER MICROCAFÉ SEMINARS
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INFORMATION
For information, contact francesco.guala@unimi.it or ivan.moscati@unibocconi.it